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Click here to subscribeLaurence Stephen Lowry RA (Northern British 1887-1976): Great Ancoats Street, limited edition monochrome lithograph signed and numbered 460/850 in pencil with publisher's blind stamp 29cm x 39cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Laurence Stephen Lowry RA (Northern British 1887-1976): St Mary's Beswick, limited edition monochrome lithograph signed and numbered 488/500 in pencil with publisher's blind stamp 29cm x 39cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Helen Bradley (British 1900-79): Blackpool Station, limited edition coloured lithograph signed in pencil with Fine Art Guild blind stamp numbered CBK, 40cm x 57cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Helen Bradley (British 1900-79): Along the River at Salford, limited edition coloured lithograph signed in pencil with Fine Art Guild blind stamp numbered DKL, 49cm x 71cmDDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Chris Gollon (British 1953-2017): 'Love (I)', giclée reproduction, artist's proof signed and number V in pencil, with fine art printer's blind stamp 61cm x 74cm. Artist's proof aside from an open-ended edition, of which approximately only ten were ever signed. Published by IAP Fine Art, printed by Goldmark Atelier. A major museum retrospective of Chris Gollon's work is currently at Huddersfield Art Gallery until 4th January 2020.DDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Click here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
Patrick Hughes (British 1939): 'Sideways', limited edition screen print signed titled dated '91 and numbered 78/100 in pencil with publisher's blind stamp 60cm x 46cm DDS - Artist's resale rights may apply to this lot Condition Report Excellent conditionClick here for further images, condition, auction times & delivery costs
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.K. Henry IV. With the humours of Sir John Falstaff. A Tragi-comedy. London: Printed for R.W. and Sold by John Deeve, 1700. 4to (212 x 163 mm). Modern paneled calf, Custom black cloth box. Repairs and ownership stamp to title, light browning and soiling. Provenance: John Brown (ownership stamp dated 1756); Mary Hyde [Viscountess Eccles] (bookplate; her sale, Christie's New York, April 14, 2004, lot 95); Ralph Vallone, Jr. (bookplate).NINTH EDITION and the first edition of Thomas Betterton's adaptation. Abridged and—as printed on the title page—'Revived, with Alterations' by Betterton (1635-1710). In his time, Betterton was the preeminent actor and theater manager in England. Wing S-2928.
MCCARTHY, CORMAC. B.1933.10 first editions, all fine in dust-jackets (except where noted): 1. No Country for Old Men. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Publisher's advance copy, with tipped-in flyleaf, SIGNED in pencil by the author. 2-4. The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain.. 1992-1998. ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 5. Child of God. 1973. First edition. Tape stain to endpapers.6. The Orchard Keeper. 1965. First edition. Dampstain to jacket, library stamp. 7. The Stonemason. 1994. First edition.8. The Road. 2006. First edition.9. The Gardener's Son. 1996. First edition.10. 'The Dark Waters,' in Sewanee Review, volume LXXIII, number 2, Spring 1965. Publisher's printed wrappers. An excerpt from The Orchard Keeper and the first appearance of McCarthy's work in the literary press.
SHAKESPEAREAN FORGERIES.[IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY. 1775-1835.] The Confessions of William Henry Ireland. London: Ellerton & Byworth, 1805. 8vo (185 x 112 mm). Half calf and marbled boards. Rubbed, text block cracking slightly, minor spotting.WITH: Miscellaneous Papers, Legal Instruments, The Tragedy of King Lear, and a Small Fragment of Hamlet, from the Original Mss in the Possession of Samuel Ireland. London: Egerton, et. al., 1796. Small 4to (224 x 140 mm). Folded engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by Samuel Ireland. Contemporary quarter calf and plain boards, paper spine label, edges uncut. Covers soiled, scattered browning and spotting, library stamp on rear paste-down. Provenance: Francis Bacon Library (bookplate). WITH: GREATHEAD, BERTIE. 1759-1826. The Regent, a Tragedy. Dublin: Burnet, et. al., 1788. Contemporary wrappers, edges uncut. Chips to spine and edges of wrappers, soiling and creasing to page corners. William Henry Ireland was a book collector whose father, Samuel Ireland, held a great fascination for Shakespeare's works. Having access to old paper stock at the legal office where he worked, William produced forgeries of documents supposedly written in Shakespeare's hand, the first of which were published by his father as Miscellaneous Papers, Legal Instruments, The Tragedy of King Lear, and a Small Fragment of Hamlet. William then forged two entirely new plays, Vortigern and Rowena and Henry II, purported to be lost Shakespeare manuscripts, but denounced in print as fakes. With Samuel Ireland accused of forgery, his son published a confession, but the family reputation was ruined and neither he nor his father were able to make it whole.
RIDER HAGGARD, Henry (1856-1925). King Solomon's Mines. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, [?September] 1885. 8vo (188 x 130mm). Half title, folding coloured lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved map on p.27, 16-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end, comprising 8-pages headed "Illustrated, Fine-Art, and other Volumes" with date code "5 G. 8.85" and 8-pages headed "Bibles and Religious Works" with date code "5 B. 8.85" (frontispiece torn and repaired without loss, some mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original red pictorial cloth lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt (dampstaining to upper cover, some other staining, edges lightly rubbed). Provenance: Sotheran stamp on front pastedown; modern, partly illegible, inscription on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with "Bamamgwato" on p.10, "to let twins to live" on p.122, and "wrod" on p.307. Allen 31; Sadleir 1089; Scott 4: "2,000 copies"; Whatmore F3; Wolff 2863.
COOLIDGE, Harold Jefferson (1904-85). A Revision of the Genus Gorilla. Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed at the Museum, August 1929. 4to (299 x 250mm). 21 monochrome photographed plates, 2 maps, tables, diagrams (some light marginal staining). Later red pebbled cloth, spine lettered in gilt, original green printed wrappers bound in. An off-print from "Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College" (Vol. L. No. 4.). Provenance: A. J. E. Cave (stamp on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the upper wrapper inscribed, "I am sending you this belated paper with full appreciation that it was to a large extent your help & information that made it possible. I hope that you will write me your frank opinion about my conclusion. With my compliments & deepest gratitude, Harold J. Coolidge." The recipient of this presentation copy is almost certainly Professor A. J. E. Cave (1900-2001), distinguished Fellow of the Zoological Society of London.5188
GEOLOGY & PALEONTOLOGY - James BRYCE (1838-1922). Geology of Clydesdale and Arran; embracing also the Marine Zoology and the Flora of Arran. London & Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1859. Large 8vo (227 x 140mm). Hand-coloured wood-engraved map of Arran, diagrams (some light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Original textured cloth (head of spine detached, some wear at foot of spine). FIRST EDITION. With 25 other books of related interest including Robert Garner's The Natural History of the County of Stafford; comprising its Geology, Zoology, Botany, and Meteorology (London, 1844, cloth, spine worn), J. Bosquet's Notice sur quelques Cirripèdes (Harlem, 1857, plates, wrappers), A. C. Ramsay's The Old Glaciers of Switzerland and North Wales (London, 1860, cloth), Dugald Bell's Among the Rocks around Glasgow (Glasgow, 1881, cloth), John Edward Lee's Note-Book of an Amateur Geologist (London, 1881, cloth), William Morris Fontaine's Contributions to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia (Washington, 1883, vol. VI of the "Monographs of the United States Geological Survey", cloth), the same author's The Potomac or Younger Mesozoic Flora (Washington, 1889, vol. XV in 2 vols. (text and plates) of the "Monographs of the United States Geological Survey", cloth), G. Lindstrom's On Silurian Gastropoda and Pteropoda of Gotland (Stockholm, 1884, plates, wrappers), Guide des Excursions du VII Congres Geologique International (St Petersburg, 1897, cloth), Aubrey Strahan's The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth (London, 1898, cloth, 2 copies), John Tyndall's Die Gletscher der Alpen (Braunschweig, 1898, wrappers), Johannes Walther's Die Fauna der Solnhofener Plattenkalle (Jena, 1904, plate, half niger morocco, autograph note from the author pasted onto verso of upper wrapper), Richard Turner's Descriptive Catalogue of the Geological Collection in the Chambers Institution, Peebles (Edinburgh, 1927, cloth) and a bound collection of geological articles, papers, offprints etc. titled on the spine "Miscellaneous Papers 1916-1937 [by] Donald C. Barton" with Harvard University bookplate and cancellation stamp. The lot sold not subject to return. (26)
MEDICINE, ophthalmology - Hermann SCHEFFLER (1820-1903). The Theory of Ocular Defects and of Spectacles ... translated by Robert Brudenell Carter. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. 8vo (198 x 124mm). Half title, diagrams (some light mainly marginal staining). Original pebbled cloth gilt. Provenance: John Tweed (old signature on front free endpaper); Wellcome Institute Library (stamp on verso of title and withdrawal stamp on front free endpaper). With 5 other books of related interest, namely Hans Virchow's Beiträge zur vergleichenden Anatomie des Auges (Berlin, 1882, cloth), Swan M. Burnett's A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Astigmatism (St. Louis, 1887, cloth), M. S. Mayou's The Changes Produced by Inflammation in the Conjunctiva (Hunterian Lectures, R.C.S., 1905) (London, 1905, cloth), Sydney Stephenson's Ophthalmia Neonatorum (London, 1907, cloth) and O. Haab's Atlas and Epitome of Ophthalmoscopy (Philadelphia, 1909, coloured lithographed plates, cloth). The lot sold not subject to return. (6)
JAMES, Frank Linsly (1851-90). The Wild Tribes of the Soudan. An Account of Travel and Sport chiefly in the Basé Country being Personal Experiences and Adventures during three Winters Spent in the Soudan. London: John Murray, 1883. Large 8vo (223 x 160mm). Half title, etched frontispiece of "A Basé 'Professional Beauty'", 3 coloured maps, 2 of which folding, 5 etched plates and 40 wood-engraved plates, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at the end (one plate detached, creased and soiled at one edge, a few other plates, including the frontispiece, detached or loose, a few text leaves torn, one with slight loss, a few dark marginal stains, some light marginal browning and staining). Original brown pictorial cloth gilt (hinges weak, split at lower joints, some fraying to head and foot of spine, extremities rubbed). Provenance: The Zoological Society of London (label, recording the book's purchase in January 1884, and stamp on title). FIRST EDITION. Czech (Africa) pp.82-3. With 4 other works in 5 vols., namely [Fayette Robinson's] An Account of the Organization of the Army of the United States (Philadelphia, 1848, 2 vols., plates, cloth), Frank Edward Smedley's Frank Fairlegh, or Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil (London, [?1850], illustrations by George Cruikshank, roan-backed cloth), T. Gowing's A Soldier's Experience or A Voice from the Ranks: showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure (Nottingham, 1899, pictorial cloth) and Lady Mary Alice Young Hodgson's The Siege of Kumassi (London, 1901, lacks one plate, [?]original cloth, FIRST EDITION). The lot sold not subject to return. (6)
ATTLEE CLEMENT: (1883-1967) British Prime Minister 1945-51. A.L.S., Attlee, one page, oblong 8vo, Prestwood, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, 8th July 1960, to Mr. Cole. Attlee writes, in full, 'It is curious how very few of the very many autograph collectors who write to me from the United States include in their communication an international voucher to pay for the stamp. I notice that you belong to the majority'. VG
PANDIT VIJAYA LAKSHMI: (1900-1990) Indian Diplomat & Politician, the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru. Pandit served as the first female President of the United Nations General Assembly 1953-54. Vintage signed 4 x 6 photograph of Pandit seated in a full length pose. Photograph by J. Allan Cash of London and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed in fountain pen ink to the image, largely across a darker area, and dated 1959 in her hand. Some light traces of former mounting to the verso, otherwise VG
RACHMANINOFF SERGEI: (1873-1943) Russian Composer & Pianist. Vintage signed and inscribed sepia 7 x 9 photograph of Rachmaninoff in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Kubey-Rembrandt Studios of Philadelphia and bearing their blind embossed stamp to the lower right corner. Signed by Rachmaninoff in white fountain pen ink to the image and dated 1931 in his hand. The signature and inscription are a little light in places. Very neatly trimmed to the edges and with a small area of paper loss to the upper edge. G
NUREYEV & PARK: NUREYEV RUDOLF (1938-1993) Russian Ballet Dancer & PARK MERLE (1937- ) British Prima Ballerina. Signed 8 x 10 photograph by both Nureyev and Park individually, the image depicting them in a full length dance pose together from a production of The Nutcracker. Photograph by Mike Humphrey of London and bearing his credit stamp to the verso. Signed by Nureyev in bold black ink with his name alone at the base of the image and signed by Park in red ink with very poor contrast. Some heavy overall surface and corner creasing, FR
ROUAULT GEORGES: (1871-1958) French Fauvist & Expressionist Painter. Vintage signed sepia 6.5 x 4.5 photograph of the artist in a head and shoulders pose. Photograph by Yvonne Chevalier of Paris and bearing her credit stamp to the verso. Signed ('G Rouault') in blue ink to a clear area at the lower right edge of the image. Dated 1st August 1953 in pencil in an unidentified hand to the verso. Some very light, extremely minor silvering to the corners, otherwise VG
WILDE OSCAR: (1854-1900) Irish Playwright & Novelist. A good A.L.S., Oscar Wilde, four pages, 8vo, Tite Street, London (although on the printed stationery of the Albemarle Club), n.d. (November 1894), to C. Durand Esq in Freiburg. Wilde informs his correspondent that his plays can be obtained from John Lane at Bodley Head in London and continues 'They cost I believe 7/6 each - One is "Lady Windermere's Fan": the other "A Woman of No Importance"', further remarking 'You are at perfect liberty to translate them and publish them' and advising his correspondent that Dr. Oskar Blumenthal, director of a Berlin theatre, had asked three years ago 'for the right to produce "Lady Windermere", which I gave him, but he has not produced it - so you can produce it and the other if you like' and suggesting that Durand write to Blumenthal first. Wilde concludes his letter on the subject of fees, commenting 'Let us share equally, if you think that fair - I do'. Accompanied by the original envelope (stamp neatly torn away) hand addressed by Wilde. A letter of good content for its references to the stage productions of two of Wilde's most famous works including Lady Windermere's Fan. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, VG Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) is a four act comedy which was originally performed at the St. James's Theatre in London on 20th February 1892.
VICTORIA: (1819-1901) Queen of the United Kingdom Great Britain & Ireland 1837-1901. A.L.S., with her initials VRI, three pages, 8vo, Osborne, 1st August 1869, to an unidentified correspondent, on black edged mourning stationery. The Queen writes a letter of condolence, stating that she has been twice to see her correspondent, although unfortunately missed them, and continuing 'If you shld. like to see me without coming to the House & standing about waiting you cld. come over to see me later while I am sitting out.....I feel for you with all my heart in this terrible sorrow & heavy trial! One can only say God's will be done. You have the satisfaction & comfort of knowing how much beloved your son was - & that he was surrounded by kind friends'. In a postscript the Queen further adds 'Don't come over unless you feel it would be a comfort for you......' . With the small circular stamp of the Rawlins Collection neatly affixed to the lower left corner of the verso. VG Provenance: The present letter was sold by Sotheby's in their sale of the Ray Rawlins Collection on 2nd, 3rd and 4th June 1980 (Lot 124) and has not appeared on the market since.
A VICTORIAN SILVER MOUNTED SCENT BOTTLE AND OTHER COLLECTABLES the cylindrical scent bottle engraved with flowers, birds and leaves in Japanese style and with a hinged cover, mark of Sampson Mordan, London 1880, 5.5cm high (2 ¼ in); together with a German silver vesta/match case embossed with swirling flowers; a plated 'Book form' combined stamp-box and vesta case; a George VI silver jubilee commemorative 'coin' dish inset with a 1935 crown, mark of William Comyns and Sons Ltd (Richard Comyns), London 1935, 6.5cm diameter (2 ½ in); and a baby's EPNS rattle in the form of a boy in an egg suit, combined with a silver manicure implement handle adapted as a rattle
A GROUP OF SMALL SILVER AND OTHER ITEMS including; a child's silver rattle with foliate embossed bands and hung with four (of eight) bells (lacking the teether), maker's mark rubbed possibly Crisford & Norris(?), Chester 1907, 7cm long overall (2 ¾ in), 23g (¾ oz); a silver envelope-shaped stamp box pendant, mark of Gourdel Vales & Co, Birmingham 1918, 2.75cm wide (1 in); a silver mounted book of 'Hymns Ancient and Modern', the cover embossed with child angels after Reynolds, mark of Levi & Salaman; a coin spoon, Birmingham 1907; two sets of plated tea or coffee spoons; various commemorative crowns and coins and other items
Large old Ideal postage stamp album for a world collection, including Commonwealth. Broken spine with an old repair, lots of pages now loose but extra album pages added. A huge collection of stamps, mainly used, some mint, from start to finish with plenty of QV to KGV period stamps apparent. Some later pages added with early QE2 and KGVI thrown in for good measure. Album in poor condition but stamps look generally good.
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